This time of year many women and as many men are looking to feel more comfortable on the beach, around the pool, at the family reunion, or just to be able to do the Summer hiking and backpacking they love without embarrassment or fitness issues. With this in mind, what is the greatest key to your success?

The answer is nutrition, but it’s the one that gets most overlooked. We’ve dealt with the topic of nutrition in previous blogs, and will in many more, so for today, the key concept is resistance training and consistency. Put very simply, here’s what you must do:

1. Be consistent in your training regimen. You must train every day, and train with the appropriate split and intensity. You must develop a caloric deficit to lose weight, which means upping your output and downing your food intake. Note however that key nutrients from vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains must not be eliminated from your diet, rather moderated.
2. Resistance training is a key factor to weight loss and fitness for many reasons, but you one is that you will burn more calories overall and enhance your basal metabolic rate buy adding muscle. Remember that 1 extra pound of muscle, for example, will burn approximately 50 calories when your body is at rest.

So that’s today’s message - be consistent and ensure you are doing resistance training 4-5 times per week.